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Quint
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
467 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-17 22:26:25
November 17 2012 21:55 GMT
#1
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My mother found this in a trinket shop is curious about its meaning - would there be a Chinese native speaker kind enough to translate this? Thanks in advance!


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ShadowDrgn
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States2497 Posts
November 17 2012 22:28 GMT
#2
Is that a printing plate or something? It seems like the characters are written in reverse order. Since no actual Chinese people are showing up, I can at least recognize the characters from Japanese.

The top line says something like: Chinese industry tea company
Second line is like: blah blah tea manufacturing. Maybe a place of manufacture?
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3Form
Profile Joined December 2009
United Kingdom389 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-17 23:23:19
November 17 2012 23:21 GMT
#3
China Tea Company
Made in Zhaoliqiao Tea Brick Factory


For reference this is a tea brick

The company is now state owned. Apparently it was founded in the 1930s. http://www.teachina.com/index1.aspx

If anyone needs an interpreter or translator my girlfriend is available!
Tufas
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Austria2259 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-18 00:10:28
November 18 2012 00:10 GMT
#4
On November 18 2012 08:21 3Form wrote:
If anyone needs an interpreter or translator my girlfriend is available!


I would be careful if I were you, some might take up that offer you so happily extend on behalf of your girlfriend.
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Dead9
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States4725 Posts
November 18 2012 00:24 GMT
#5
On November 18 2012 08:21 3Form wrote:
China Tea Company
Made in Zhaoliqiao Tea Brick Factory


For reference this is a tea brick

The company is now state owned. Apparently it was founded in the 1930s. http://www.teachina.com/index1.aspx

If anyone needs an interpreter or translator my girlfriend is available!

is she free next saturday?
felisconcolori
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States6169 Posts
November 18 2012 00:42 GMT
#6
A tea brick stamp. That's really cool, and could be pre-Communist days. Something that would be interesting to research the history on, I think.

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Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
November 18 2012 01:01 GMT
#7
On November 18 2012 09:42 felisconcolori wrote:
A tea brick stamp. That's really cool, and could be pre-Communist days. Something that would be interesting to research the history on, I think.



Looking at all the stars, I doubt it.
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3Form
Profile Joined December 2009
United Kingdom389 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-18 01:29:20
November 18 2012 01:20 GMT
#8
On November 18 2012 09:10 Tufas wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 18 2012 08:21 3Form wrote:
If anyone needs an interpreter or translator my girlfriend is available!


I would be careful if I were you, some might take up that offer you so happily extend on behalf of your girlfriend.


It was a roundabout way of extending credit where credit was due, thanks for setting the funny boys off though

More seriously are we sure it's a stamp? It could just be that back then they wrote right to left instead of left to right?
Redmark
Profile Joined March 2010
Canada2129 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-18 03:34:49
November 18 2012 03:34 GMT
#9
Chinese would go up/down and then right/left, though (as far as I know, I might be wrong).
felisconcolori
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States6169 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-18 20:38:21
November 18 2012 20:19 GMT
#10
On November 18 2012 10:01 Sufficiency wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 18 2012 09:42 felisconcolori wrote:
A tea brick stamp. That's really cool, and could be pre-Communist days. Something that would be interesting to research the history on, I think.



Looking at all the stars, I doubt it.


Stars have been a common symbol for awhile. But that's why I said "could be" - would have to research the history of that company and how their logo has changed over time.

Edit: So I was kindof interested, and did a little bit of digging. (Google-fu at it's best.) If you check this interesting tea blog you'll see something of that design - only a very very small part of the design, but it looks fairly distinctive and like it could match. (The blog is about a mystery brick of black tea.) It guesses at a date of 1950s - 1970s for that design with that name, and that the stamp is likely on tea bricks for export.

Based on how the blogger describes the state of the chunk of tea brick she encountered, I'm going to think that maybe you have a brick of tea, not a stamp.

Second edit:

This link actually has a tea brick that shows that exact pattern, whole, at the very top of the article. And it matches the image you posted exactly.

Last edit, I promise...

So, apparently a brick of tea described as "vintage" bearing that logo (it was the obverse image on the brick, while the reverse showed a different pattern) was recently bought on eBay for $75.00. I had no idea there were tea snobs that could rival or even surpass wine snobs.
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ieatkids5
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United States4628 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-18 22:07:10
November 18 2012 22:02 GMT
#11
it's not a stamp. the characters are not mirror-flipped. they are just written backwards (from right to left), because back then, it was written right to left.
TOloseGT
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States1145 Posts
November 18 2012 22:55 GMT
#12
Traditional Characters too.
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